From the New-Book - First edition.
Playing different roles expands the mind
Concentration, imagination, and curiosity
Social action: an urge to improve the world
Peer groups and other outside pressures
Order in the classroom versus critical thinking
Company ads and deceptions
The dictionary: a door to meaning, understanding, and enchantment
History infused with myths
Self-education can be the best medicine
Who's raising you anyway?
Talking back: controlling what we the people already own
Young inventors and tween talk shows
The importance of a questioning mind
Beyond family discussions
Discovering how you're controlled by companies
Three historic Americans: beating the odds through self-education
Frames of reference revisited
Moving from knowledge to action: developing healthy habits
Becoming an informed consumer
Becoming alert to propaganda
What happened to physical education in schools?
The two great pillars of our civil justice system
Smoking: a case study in confronting power
Citizen action / community action: what is it?
The discipline of discovery
Holidays: what we celebrate
Colman McCarthy and peace studies
Animal welfare and respecting nature